In Potosí, the highest city of Bolivia, a Unesco heritage for the beauty of its colonial palazzos and for the history of its mines, there are 4.882 child-workers: minors that live their jobs as an indubitable necessity but also as a possibility of training, children that have their own family, who go to school and have time to play. Some of them belong to an organization called NATs (Ninos y Adolescentes Trabajadores: Child and Adolescent Workers) present in Bolivia, South America and also diffused in other parts of the world, to claim their rights to a dignified job, with working hours and health conditions suited to children, but also to defend the possibility to study and play like all other children. ¿ESTÁ BIEN? Is a project of cultural co-production organized by CELIM Bergamo, the Diocesan Missionary Centre of Bergamo and the DI + Cultural Association, with the aim of collecting funds to sustain the NATs organization in Bolivia. The journalist Elena Catalfamo, the photoreporter Giovanni Diffidenti and the artist Laura Morelli recently spent a month in Potosì gathering stories of children and adolescents who they met. The material collected has given life to an itinerary exhibition, which, through texts, photographs, films and recordings, speaks of the multiform wealth and vitality of a populace of minors occupied in work, but also in daily constructing their own point of view of the world.

 
 
photo Giovanni Diffidenti
photo Giovanni Diffidenti
photos by NATS of Potosì/ Bolivia, Laura Morelli
photos by NATS of Potosì/ Bolivia, Laura Morelli
 
 
 

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ESTA BIEN a Bergamo

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Laura Morelli / Di + onlus

lmorelli@associazionedipiu.org


Giovanni Diffidenti / Di + onlus

gdiffidenti@hotmail.com


Elena Catalfamo

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DI + onlus
lmorelli@associazionedipiu.org
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Jennifer Dal Pian / Area Educazione, Promozione e Tutela dei Diritti Umani / Celim Bergamo
t (+39)035 4598500
eas@celimbergamo.it

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CELIM BERGAMO CENTRO MISSIONARIO DIOCESANO

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RICAMIFICIO CHIARA sas LEMIE spa I COLORI DEL MONDO IL SEME coop CAMILLO ROTA

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IMPRESA MILESI SERGIO srl FONDAZIONE DELLA COMUNITA' BERGAMASCA onlus SCHENKER DB LOGISTICS LUIGI CIVIDINI spa

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MUNICIPALITY OF BERGAMO PROVINCE OF BERGAMO REGIONE LOMBARDIA UFFICIO SCOLASTICO PROVINCIALE DI BERGAMO

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